Why Boston Pulled the Plug on AI License Plate Readers
When a city installs smart cameras to monitor local traffic or solve neighborhood crimes, residents generally expect their data to stay exactly that—local. But...
The AI Gig Worker in Your Inbox
Imagine opening your inbox to find an email from an artificial intelligence begging for freelance work so it can pay its own "rent." It sounds like a subplot...
The AI Speed Limit: A Noble Safety Pact or a Big Tech Cartel?
Imagine a marathon where the leading runners suddenly stop, turn around, and suggest that everyone behind them should agree to walk for a while. In the...
The Trillion-Dollar Math Problem Behind the AI Boom
Imagine driving across the country and seeing massive, windowless buildings scattered across the landscape—monuments to a technological revolution. Now imagine...
The Speakerphone Divide: Politicians and Tech Leaders Clash on AI Risks
It is not every day that a major tech conference gets interrupted by a phone call from a political heavyweight. But when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s phone rang...
Why Silicon Valley’s AI Titans Are Suddenly Asking for a Speed Limit
Silicon Valley’s favorite mantra has long been "move fast and break things." For the past few years, the race to build artificial general intelligence (AGI)...
Should We Put Speed Limits on AI Development?
In the hyper-competitive world of technology, the prevailing philosophy has long been to "move fast and break things." But when it comes to artificial...
The "Doomer" Pivot: Why AI Rivals Are Suddenly Begging to Slow Down
In the fiercely competitive world of artificial intelligence, agreement among top rivals is almost unheard of. Anthropic was born out of a fundamental...
The Micromanager Behind the World's Cheapest Robots
When you think of a visionary robotics CEO, you might imagine someone sketching futuristic androids or pondering the philosophical implications of artificial...